Cumbria got off to a winning start in the NCCA T20 Super 12s at Furness when they beat Lincolnshire by 22 runs.
They were first on this morning and after their success must wait until Lincolnshire have played Herefordshire before they finish off the day against Herefordshire.
Lincolnshire had elected to field in the opening game with the host county and struck an early blow when Freddie Fallows went first ball caught on the long-on boundary.
Sam Dutton (21 off 17) put on 47 with Harry Singh and the Lancashire youngster went on to play an important and mature innings of 64 off 56 before he was sixth out, caught on the boundary going for a big one.
Skipper Michael Slack (35 off 28) had kept the momentum going, picking-up useful runs from his reverse sweeps and switch hits.
Although Greg Cameron was stumped first ball Cumbria posted a solid 148-6 in their 20 overs with Matthew Sempill finding a boundary edge garden with a six off the final delivery,
Opening bowler Nic Keast took 3-10 off his four overs for Lincolnshire.
Lincolnshire opener Ben Wright gave a simple return catch to Fallows off the second ball of the innings before Keast tried a switch hit and only managed to play-on off Ed Moulton.
Then a ball from Slack caught the shoulder of Sam Evans and looped-up for Nico Watt to take the catch running in from cover.
Moulton followed up with two clean bowled victims in one over and Sam Sharp took a good running catch to dismiss Drew Sylvester who skied one off Slack.
The end came when Fateh Singh was caught by Gorge Lavelle off the last ball at deep square leg and Lincolnshire ended on 126-8.
Moulton finished with 3-27 and Slack had 3-19.
